Happy Elevator No. 2 v. Osage Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 459 · 1954
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Ettin v. Ava Truck Leasing, Inc. (1969), Security Insurance v. Johnson (1960)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commissioner v. Sunnen · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · Tait v. Western Maryland Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... If it appears that several distinct matters may have been litigated, upon one or more of which the judgment may have passed, without indicating which of them was thus litigated, and upon which the judgment was rendered, the whole subject-matter of the action will be at large, and open to a new contention, unless this uncertainty be removed by extrinsic evidence showing the precise point involved and determined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.